Today's News

It was a bull’s-eye of a season for the Shelby County High School rifle team.

The Rockets’ sharpshooters recently wrapped up an undefeated season, winning state and conference championships the last two Saturdays.

The Shelby County quartet of senior Brandon Thompson, junior Connor Davis and sophomores Heather Kirby and Keri Marlin won the Kentucky State Air Rifle Championship on Nov. 13, then on Saturday the Rockets won their conference championship for the 11th consecutive year.

After more than two months, Shelby County residents finally have the go ahead to burn debris outside.

On Friday, Shelby County Judge-Executive Rob Rothenburger issued an executive order to lift the burn ban, which had been in effect throughout the county since September 13.

Rothenburger cites lower temperatures and higher humidity levels coupled with adequate rainfall as determining factors in this decision, because these things have lessened the probability of large uncontrollable fires.

Despite a few noticeable differences, there really isn’t much of a contrast between the Collins and Shelby County high school swim teams.

“The warmups, swimsuits and swim caps are different colors, but other than that, I treat it as one team. I don’t differentiate between one or the other,” said Jean Paul LaVertu, the coach of both teams.

John Kalmey has been farming all his life, and as it turns out, a life in agriculture runs in his family - well, for at least the past 360 years or so.

Kalmeys have owned farms all over Jefferson and Shelby counties, including part of what is now Louisville International Airport. John Kalmey lives on a dairy farm on Zaring Mill Road, as he has for 61 years and where he raised his family.

He's 86 now, and Kalmey's friends Clarence Miller and Brig. Gen. Ron Van Stockum had been telling him he needed to get moving if he wanted to see his family's heritage.